(n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
(n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circulating numbers did not fall significantly during apheresis.
(2) Platelet concentrates collected by continuous flow automated apheresis (Fenwal CS-3000) were compared with those collected by manual apheresis to determine whether the prolonged centrifugation and vigorous resuspension affected platelet viability and in vitro function.
(3) Since exposure to blood products occurs on a daily basis during hemapheresis, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic has a serious impact both for patients undergoing apheresis procedures as well as for health professionals working in the field.
(4) The incorporation of three sessions of apheresis, removing 90% of plasma and 30% of platelet population, into the conventional treatment schedule is shown to have an anticoagulant, thrombolytic and platelet hypersensitivity-controlling effect.
(5) The overall CE was calculated from the pre-apheresis cell counts and the stated blood volume processed.
(6) A blood sampling pack is available on closed system apheresis kits for the Fenwal CS3000 blood cell separator to facilitate same day donor testing while maintaining the closed system.
(7) Ethylene oxide gas, which was used to sterilize plastic components in the disposable apheresis kits, represented a possible source of sensitization.
(8) Peripheral stem cell apheresis and lymphocytapheresis are bringing patients with metastatic malignancies to the apheresis department with increasing frequency, and the apheresis staff must be alert to previously undescribed complications of apheresis.
(9) After transfusions which produced satisfactory responses, we identified the original whole blood donors to serve as apheresis donors.
(10) The COBE Spectra System will perform all types of apheresis procedures.
(11) Maintenance lipid apheresis administered 1 time per week resulted in a sustained reduction of total and LDL cholesterol and was associated with a sustained improvement in blood flow properties.
(12) Plateletpheresis was performed on 34 healthy donors (26 male and 8 female), formerly experienced by other apheresis procedures.
(13) HDL-cholesterol levels were somewhat raised, to a higher extent with dextran sulfate apheresis.
(14) A recent development of this procedure is LDL-apheresis, that is the selective removal of atherogenic LDL and the return to the patient of his own LDL-depleted plasma.
(15) A large animal model is needed to evaluate new apheresis technologies.
(16) The patient had received long-term LDL apheresis for 6 years and 7 months and had shown angiographic regression.
(17) These results suggested that LDL-apheresis using the dextran-sulphate cellulose column, may cause an increase in the turnover rate of the apo E-containing HDL and thus facilitate cholesterol removal from the peripheral tissues.
(18) Optimally adjusted anticoagulation under LDL apheresis is essential for successful treatment: Excessive anticoagulation exposes the outpatient to the risk of uncontrolled hemorrhage, insufficient anticoagulation may shorten the duration of utilization of the immune-adsorption columns.
(19) To assure that apheresis procedures are carried out in a safe, efficient and appropriate manner with minimum risk and maximum benefit.
(20) Low-density lipoprotein apheresis (LDL-apheresis) was done with either cascade filtration (DF) or dextran sulfate cellulose adsorption (DSC) in a patient with primary biliary cirrhosis who developed severe dyslipidemia associated with cholestasis and accumulation of lipoprotein-X (LP-X).
Syncope
Definition:
(n.) An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.
(n.) Same as Syncopation.
(n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting.
(n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other risk factors that have been identified in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include nonsustained ventricular tachycardia on ambulatory electrocardiogram, a strong family history of sudden death, and prior occurrence of syncope (or cardiac arrest).
(2) The decrease of left ventricle outflow gradient as well as of subjective complaints inclusively cerebral syncopes were remarkable.
(3) He was admitted with dyspnea on exertion, syncope, and severe cyanosis.
(4) Waiting for surgery the patient suffered a syncope that was diagnosed of embolic origin and the left atrial thrombus has disappeared.
(5) Of the 48 patients, 36 (75%) had symptoms--congestive heart failure in 24, angina in 19, and syncope in 7.
(6) A history of syncope associated with some event capable of stimulating the carotid sinus was also helpful in selecting patients for pacemaker treatment.
(7) The upright-tilting test was considered positive if syncope developed in association with hypotension or bradycardia, or both.
(8) It thus appears that paroxysmal, vagally mediated complete AV block should be seriously considered in patients with unexplained syncope.
(9) Orthostatic intolerance, with feeling sick, instability and sometimes syncope, is characteristically observed after the return to earth due to a remarkable fluid shift in the lower part of the body and an acute reduction in blood flow to the brain.
(10) The patient with recurrent malignant ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia with syncope) presents a complex therapeutic problem.
(11) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
(12) A diagnostic approach to syncope in head and neck cancer is proposed.
(13) Carotid sinus hypersensitivity (CSH) is a common cause of syncope, and permanent pacemarker is unequivocally indicated in such patients.
(14) The cause of brief syncopes is discovered in only two-thirds of the cases at most.
(15) TLS is an attractive clinical term, easy to remember, and with pathophysiologic relevance to the clinician confronting the patient with a history of syncope and whose EEG discloses temporal lobe paroxysmal activity.
(16) In another 38 patients with neither syncope nor an intraventricular conduction defect, the mean HV interval lengthened by 5.3 ms and in two cases by 20-25 ms.
(17) To determine if anodal excitation during bipolar stimulation facilitates the initiation of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, nonsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or repetitive ventricular responses, both bipolar and cathodal unipolar programmed ventricular stimulation with one to three extrastimuli delivered during ventricular pacing at two rates from the right ventricular apex were performed in 28 patients evaluated for spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (11 patients), nonsustained tachycardia (eight patients), or syncope (nine patients).
(18) No correlation was established between HV interval and age, aortic valve gradient, left ventricular peak systolic pressure, syncope, and coronary artery disease.
(19) Pacing was required because of syncopal attacks in eight patients, three of whom had congestive heart failure or low cardiac output on physiologic studies.
(20) In this case, the metastatic tumor around the carotid sinus seemed to be related to the syncope and the hemodynamic collapse.